I don't know if Tesla has any computers to license. My understanding is that nVidia makes the computers inside Tesla vehicles (the X1 product for infotainment, and the DRIVE product for self-driving).
I think John Deere is perfectly fine using something that is proven to work. I can't imagine anyone wanting to tie themselves to Tesla's software at this stage of the game.
Happy to see Tesla /finally/ make some traction on GPL compliance.
Some additional context [1]:
I’m reaching out you since you are someone who has expressed interest
or requested open source code from Tesla in the past.
We would like to let you know that we now have two repositories on
GitHub that might be of interest.
You can find them here:
https://github.com/teslamotors/buildroot
https://github.com/teslamotors/linux
Today they contain the buildroot material that is used to build the
system image on our Autopilot platform, and the kernel sources
for those boards as well as the Nvidia Tegra-based infotainment
system in Model S/X. It is expected to be amended with material for
other systems in the car in the near future.
Currently the material that is there is representative of the 2018.12
release, but it will be updated with new versions corresponding to new
releases over time.
It does not contain the proprietary applications Tesla has built on top of
this system image such as the actual Autopilot software stack,
Nvidia proprietary binaries, etc.
Work is underway on preparing sources in other areas as well, together with a
more coordinated information page. We wanted to let you know about this
material as it is available now while work continues on the other parts.
For further questions, please contact opensource@tesla.com.
While they don't include their higher-complexity systems or seem to improve the existing projects much, I still find it interesting to see what tools they use.
How can we be sure this is really Tesla sponsoring this? It looks like the sole person is a Tesla employee but maybe they're working unilaterally? It is probably them but just wanted to add some healthy skepticism...
